gtrider
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Things we've dodged, eh? Let see, in southern Utah headed into one of the parks there was the full can of beer hucked at me from the window of an oncoming pickup truck. I ducked and swerved, the can went over my shoulder and exploded on the road behind me. On I-25 between Cheyenne, WY and Denver I dodged an aluminum extension ladder that suddenly appeared from underneath the truck in front of me. Dang thing had been hit once or twice already but fortunately was lying nearly parallel to the roadway so I could miss it. I allow a lot more space cushion than I used to when following vehicles!
Things I've hit? Excluding wildlife (deer, rabbits, javelina, various fowl) the only thing I've ever hit was a two-foot-high traffic cone coming into Grant's Pass, OR. I was traveling eastward and blinded by the crack-of-dawn sun and didn't see the cone until it went WHAP! and disappeared under the left cylinder then bounced down the road behind me. It was a good sign I needed to stop for a coffee break, and besides--for some reason it struck my funnybone and I was laughing so hard I damn near fell off the bike!
Let's all be careful out there,
GTRider
Things I've hit? Excluding wildlife (deer, rabbits, javelina, various fowl) the only thing I've ever hit was a two-foot-high traffic cone coming into Grant's Pass, OR. I was traveling eastward and blinded by the crack-of-dawn sun and didn't see the cone until it went WHAP! and disappeared under the left cylinder then bounced down the road behind me. It was a good sign I needed to stop for a coffee break, and besides--for some reason it struck my funnybone and I was laughing so hard I damn near fell off the bike!
Let's all be careful out there,
GTRider